Stories with 'Wyncode' tag

How one couple is creating coding job opportunities for South Floridians

Juha and Johanna Mikkola launched Wyncode in 2014. (📸: Photo provided) Johanna and Juha Mikkola were happy living in Toronto. Johanna was working for the National Hockey League while Juha had his own e-commerce business. The Mikkolas are Finnish and moved to Canada in 2001. Yet, the couple said they felt unfulfilled. They wanted to […]

/ April 11, 2019


What job hunting in South Florida’s tech scene is really like

South Florida’s tech scene is growing fast — but not fast enough, or in not the right ways, for many local jobseekers.

/ October 16, 2017


Things to do on the startup scene

Weekly favorites like Waffle Wednesdays and one-offs on everything from funding to hackathons

/ October 3, 2017


Forget unicorns. TheVentureCity wants ‘iguanacorns’

TheVentureCity, Miami’s newest accelerator and incubator, will offer vetted startups an entire ecosystem of services, from engineering and product development to legal and financial help.

/ June 13, 2017


Five things that happened on the Miami startup scene this week

Miami now has a VC-In-Residence, the Knight Foundation makes a big bet on Miami startups, and South Florida moves up a spot on the VC tables.

/ April 7, 2017


What to know about Miami startups this week

This week: A new domain name is born in Miami, South Florida’s health tech scene gets another win, and why 91 percent of tech professionals say they’d leave their current jobs.

/ March 17, 2017


Miami’s best places to learn new stuff

A guide to all the local orgs where you can finally learn the things you thought you would learn in college.

/ February 14, 2017


Here’s how to remake your career with code

Four Wyncode grads talk about what brought them to the bootcamp, and what they’ve left with.

/ May 2, 2016


Miami’s got coding game

The tech industry is booming, and with it the demand for coding skills. Fortunately, there are a lot of local options for upping your coding game.

/ March 22, 2016


Johanna Mikkola’s quest to fill 500,000 jobs

Johanna Mikkola didn’t expect to be in Miami. But now that she is, she’s trying to change the way we prepare for work, and the way companies hire in technology.

/ November 29, 2015